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Today’s Headlines

8:37 AM PST on November 5, 2020

    • Americans across the country rally for every vote to be counted. Some want to stop the count (Fortune)
    • Environmental resilience wins on Bay Area ballots (Greenbelt Alliance)
    • 15 of 18 transit measures passed (Mass Transit)
    • Renewable energy won a few local elections (The Verge)
    • Prop 22, written by Uber and Lyft, passes (Route Fifty)
    • San Joaquin gets state grant for sustainable transportation projects (Escalon Times)
    • Tulare dairy farms get millions to reduce methane emissions (The Sun Gazette)
    • U.S. has officially withdrawn from the Paris Climate Agreement, but states still work towards its goals (Capital Public Radio)
    • How do you decarbonize air travel? (Eos)
    • San Diego moves to preserve existing affordable housing (KPBS)
    • Imagine modern cities without cars (Treehugger)
    • Scooters too quiet (Cities Today)
    • Who will be next head of CARB? (Politico)
    • Newsom urges state agencies to find savings from "permanent telework" (Sacramento Bee)

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Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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